The Central Florida Amateur Gardener
February Garden Diary
Camphor tree. Foliage and berries at the end of January.
February 10, 1997. Some robins near the powder puff bush.
February 13, 1997. Robins and cedar waxwings were eating the last of the berries from the Carolina cherry laurel tree today. This morning we noticed that all of the camphor tree berries were gone.
We saw large numbers of migrating robins for the first time this year on February 10.
February 22, 1997. Our first larkspur flower of the year appeared in the garden this morning. No new plants were added. They self seeded last year.
Also, there are now flowers on the violet wood sorrels under one of the red-tipped photinia trees.
The azaleas are continuing to put on a good show.
The kind of new growth appearing on the allspice tree ( Pimenta dioica ) indicates that it might flower this year. The tree is growing in a large pot and we have been bringing it into the garage whenever there is a freeze.
By this time, new leaves have appeared on a number of plants including the coral tree ( Erythrina ), the floss silk trees, the jacaranda tree, the beautyberry bush, and the chickasaw plum tree.
All of the jatropha trees now have new leaves and flowers or flower buds. The unidentified jatropha mentioned in the October issue, incidentally, is probably Jatropha gossypifolia.
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February 1997. Azaleas. Purple Formosa and George Tabor.
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